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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Khaldoun Alzien, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395308 ; 395309 ; 707-1 ; 711-1 ; 711-3 ; 711100 ; 711102 ; 711115 ; 711143 ; 711167 ;
Abstract
A PCI repeater coupled between a primary bus and a secondary bus includes logic to allow downstream and upstream bursting across the repeater. The PCI repeater is operable to echo transactions in either an upstream or downstream direction. During configuration, the PCI repeater snoops configuration cycles on the primary bus to build an address map of devices on the primary bus. The PCI repeater then uses the address map as a lookup table as a positive determination of whether to forward a transaction upstream.